Celebrating My Brother’s Colonoscopy

If you could slow down an action that usually zooms by, or speeds up an event that normally drags on, which would you choose, and why?

Colonoscopy

“Colonoscopy is a test that allows your doctor to look at the inner lining of your large intestine camera.gif (rectum and colon). He or she uses a thin “yeah right” flexible tube called a colonoscopy to look at the colon. A colonoscopy helps find ulcers, colon polyps, tumors, and areas of inflammation or bleeding. During a colonoscopy, tissue samples can be collected ( lost coins or jewelry found) ‘not’ (biopsy) and abnormal growths can be taken out. Colonoscopy can also be used as a screening test to check for cancer or precancerous growths in the colon or rectum (polyps).”

I would ‘speed up’ the clean out time before having a colonoscopy by about 99.9%. With all the new technology today in cameras. The cleanout necessary for a colonoscopy should not have to be so lengthy and vigorous. Anyone who has ever drunk a gallon jug full of Epsom Salts water or whatever laxative it is preparing for their colonoscopy will tell you. It borders on torture, scenes from torture chambers, dark dungeons, it is inhumane treatment. No human body should have to endure it. I have sat on the toilet drinking my gallon of hemlock juice most of one night. It is an experience that you will never forget. There has to be a newer, better product that can be used, without having to drink a gallon of liquid. One 8oz glass every hour until you “run clear” and want to puke!

This is a problem that should be taken very seriously, many people will take the option of not having a colonoscopy done just because of the sheer torture that is involved in getting yourself cleaned out, squeaky clean from top to bottom. Many of these people who make the decision not to have the colonoscopy will end up with cancer-killing them. That is a complete waste of life. Colonoscopy flushing out requirements must be changed by a better cleaning agent. Newer and better camera equipment could take pictures through some poop if the large intestine and colon are not completely spotless. Many lives will be saved if this becomes a part of our new breakthroughs in modern medicine.

If you could slow down an action that usually zooms by, or speeds up an event that normally drags on, which would you choose, and why?

Speed up the colonoscopy clean out time, slow down the trip to Mars by an hour.